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Give your health costs a thorough checkup

Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Nov 10 2012, 12:05am CST

A survey of 25 small and large local companies by the Fort Worth-based Whitney Smith Co. found some good news for employees with family coverage: Premiums went up only 3.5 percent over the previous year. That's slig ...

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Aegis Health Group Partners with Sierra Providence Health Network on Healthy Worksite Initiative for Local Employers

Source: Business Wire  |   May 21 2013, 9:48am CDT

EL PASO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sierra Providence Health Network has selected Aegis Health Group as its partner to bring worksite health and wellness programs to employers throughout El Paso. Using Aegis’ tur ...

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First Edition: May 21, 2013

Source: Kaiser Health News  |   May 21 2013, 6:23am CDT

Today's headlines include stories examining how the approaching implementation of some health law provisions is highlighting key policy questions. Kaiser Health News: How Will The 'Unbanked' Buy Insurance On The Exchanges? Kaiser Health News staff wr ...

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27 weeks ago


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"Our cost estimator gives the price of the most common diagnosis, around 80 percent of all procedures ... It allows our policyholders to comparison-shop."


Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

 
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OVERNIGHT HEALTH: House panel probes ObamaCare outreach

Source: The Hill  |   May 20 2013, 5:59pm CDT

A top implementation official from the Health and Human Services Department is headed to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for a hearing on the department's outreach efforts. Gary Cohen, director of the office that's handling most of the work impleme ...

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2 days ago

In a Salute to International Coaching Week, Healthyroads Offers Six Reasons Employees Should Work With a Health Coach

Source: Street Insider  |   May 20 2013, 11:37am CDT

SAN DIEGO, May 20, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- International Coaching Week (ICW) – an annual global celebration set for May 20-26 this year – shines a spotlight on the many benefits of working with a professional coach. Every year thousands of people – fr ...

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2 days ago

Sound Medicine: Why are employers offering health care incentives?

Source: The Incidental Economist  |   May 20 2013, 7:21am CDT

Sound Medicine” health care policy analyst Aaron Carroll, M.D., M.S., weighs in on the actions employers are considering to reduce health care costs. Some companies have begun offering incentives like gym memberships to employees who lose w ...

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2 days ago

Whitney Tilson: World Acceptance Scummiest Business in Recent Memory

Source: Value Walk  |   May 19 2013, 6:47pm CDT

Whitney Tilson is shorting World Acceptance Corp. (NASDAQ:WRLD). World Acceptance is a Greenville, SC-headquartered branch-based lender offering small loans to the unbanked and under-banked consumer in both the U.S. and Mexico. Most of World’s l ...

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3 days ago

Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities - Los Angeles Times

Source: Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association  |   May 19 2013, 12:06am CDT

With nearly every GOP-leaning state on track to reject an expansion of the government health plan for the poor, the healthcare law's goal of guaranteed insurance will become a reality next year mostly in tr ...

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4 days ago

Guest Voice of Michael Crossey: Corbett's pension plan will cost more

Source: GoErie.com  |   May 17 2013, 8:50pm CDT

In the public debate over public worker pensions, one fact is often obscured from the conversation -- the workers held up their end of the bargain. Teachers like me, law enforcement officials, nurses, social workers and other public employe ...

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5 days ago

Wellness Coverage and Obamacare

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 17 2013, 9:46am CDT

Everyone is talking and worrying about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which became law in 2010. Much of the focus on Obamacare these days is on the "individual mandate" provision, which will require almost everyone t ...

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